Conducts research on the arts and sustainability.

Sustainable Practice, collaboration, writer, representation and slow fashion.

• "Where do we need guidance?"

• "Money, ethics..? Questions of environment brings up everything else!"

• It needs to be a two-way discussion.

• How are harsh chemicals being disposed of?

• Should there be a change to digital only?

• Is there a 'fetish' of analog mediums?

Printing results in high wastage - this is something we often don't see / (Supply chain/outsourcing).

Digital work still goes to a printer = a constant and repetitive cycle

• perhaps working/researching locally can leave a smaller impact.

How do we represent and engage others?

There is often a fear of being left behind - will these questions make sense to all audiences?

Example from a fashion designer: Where are our fabrics coming from? Everything seems to have plastic.

• "I can justify my price through my quality."

in architecture for example..

Mode of making - is there an imbalance? - We need more sustainability conversations.

Selling fine art prints there is a quality clients expect, for example with dye transfer printing.

• Perhaps it isn't about waste until the final output.

• "Sometimes there isn't a choice."

• "We are brainwashed, we need to open minds as educators." For example, speaking to clients/tech POV.

• Where do our responsibilities lie?

• There should be bigger conversations on expectations and markets.

• More organisational support

• Time management and slow production

• Quality and ethics.

• Storage (for example storage of files and duplicates.)

Defining yourself to a medium? It can influence your agency and identity.

Curatorial Decisions:

• models/contractors

• following trends, art institutions, money made from it.

• more important for the curatorial framework to work or for the artists to work?

• giving more power to artists/workers

Where is it going and how is it getting there?

• Time is a luxury!

• Who creates time scales, slow making should be encouraged.

Sustainable practices.. Individual responsibility vs institutions:

• Artist as writers, interpreter, provocateurs, intergenerational conversations.

• Art as vector for change.

• Art disciplines cross over, topics blend into one another.

• Without the past you cannot have the future, there is a common thread.

From the zine question: "What is the legacy I am leaving behind? Can it be made kinder?"

Using the word: "kinder"

• the open language is good, its a good way to phrase a question.

• "It is what it is."

  
  

• What happens to left over materials?

• Food/material maps.
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• Out-sourcing/supply chain - 'afterlife' repurposing.

After a successful workshop to discuss our first version of the sustainability toolkit, we wanted to allow others to see what we have been talking about, as well as to further contribute to discussions on sustainability and how to further improve the toolkit!

For those who are knew to using Padlet, it is an online bulletin board, allowing users to collaborate virtually, and read through contributions and spark new conversations.

Thank you!

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- Creator - creative women IG setup, photography, writing for animation

- Multidisciplinary artist (from Bristol, based in Deptford) - video and sound artist, illustrator background - getting back to analog

- Fashion Designer (Hackney) - organic materials, creating new collections, natural dying - runs workshops, mental health importance in her practice

- Arts worker, artist

- Student from Goldsmiths (Türkiye) - contemporary art theory, graphic design background, theory, curatorship, writing critics, photography

- Antropologist - architect background, creative practice

- Student from Goldsmiths (Hungary) - arts administration and cultural policy, contemporary fine art theory background

• how to communicate with people

• how am I gonna do

• how can I be less impactful

- Takes time to maintain responsible sustainable practices

- Low power use of digital

- Locally produced, preloved garments, materials

- Doing materials on site

- Digital storage, energy - counterbalance: not writing, not recording

- Off-Peak travel